Absolutely atrocious nonsense. The storyline can be summed up as, "No matter how paranoid, superstitious and psychologically abusive your mother is, she's always right." And it was obvious that was going to be the case within the first 5-10 minutes. Save yourself the bother of sitting through this tripe.
A long setup gives way to an abbreviated payoff. However, despite this quibble, the film is still fairly interesting. More depth and folklore would have helped, but it's still an adequate film.
Unfortunately, it's a well shot but underdeveloped story, that clearly suffers from getting repetitive and not explaining itself well (i.e. mentions the evil eye a couple of times but doesn't really explain it, which is bizarre considering it's literally the title.) If the execution was thought through, it might have turned out better, but in it's current form it just feels like an idea that should have been an episode of an anthology TV show at best and not a feature length film.
I quote enjoyed this one more than the other 3 films.
It feels like it doesn't commit itself enough to its own premise. The actors and production value are incredible, but the writing is so half-hearted, meandering, and random that it's just not an enjoyable thriller.
The starting part of the film did have potential. The concept of the evil eye and small tidbits of information telling the viewers to ignore it at their own peril. But after that, after the first 15 minutes. The whole movie falls flat. It was only 90 minutes but felt even longer than 2 hours as it was dragged on and on and on. Like except one or two things nothing happened till the 70 minute mark. It could have been good if the concepts behind the evil eye and it's presence throughout history or maybe at least subvert the expectations of the viewers and show something along the lines of the mother being the crazy one all along while the fiancee was innocent. This goes to show all the money and finance and even acting whether it's supported by Amazon or not, can't help Blumhouse to make a decent film if they don't think about the plot first.
Shout by Tanmay PanigrahiBlockedParent2021-06-08T07:19:58Z— updated 2023-04-16T14:31:41Z
This is the worst movie i ever watched in my whole life !!! So this movie is about a mother who has gone through a personal trauma in her life fears for her daughter that she should not commit the same mistake, but the story was illogical as fuck & the movie execution was slow and boring. The lack of actual jump scares or horror scenes makes this movie even more bad .Imagine a horror movie with no horror , followed by a bullshit script and very bad/cringeworthy acting .The reincarnation angle is laughable. How easily the mother- daughter duo overpowers and defeat the evil is unthinkable . The writer must be on weeds while writing such a story .The concept of evil eye was also not explained too but who cares when the writer was on weed anyway .Overall this is a very pathetic shitty film !!!